The international theme for 2016 World Teachers’ Day is: “Valuing Teachers, Improving their Status”. Every South African teacher should subscribe to this theme.

This year‘s celebration of WTD coincides with the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the ILO/UNESCO Recommendations on the Status of Teachers * - which is supported by NAPTOSA. NAPTOSA holds the view that society must value its teachers and that their status should be improved.